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Author | : Timothy Garton Ash |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1994-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. Throughout that time West German politicians were trying to reunite their sundered country, even as they performed an intricate diplomatic minuet with their European -- and, particularly, their American -- allies and East Germany's Soviet sponsors.
Author | : Peter H. Gommers |
Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789058671493 |
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Europe is a word that is almost daily on our lips. But how far do we have to go back in order to find the origins of its name? The first part of this beautifully illustrated book traces the geographical and mythological basis of Europe's name. Who came up with the idea to distinguish the world in continents with proper names? The search will bring the reader back to the early history of mankind. How did the ancient Egyptians see the world and populations around them? Where did the Hebrews get the idea to split the world in three? And what was the world-picture in ancient Greece, laid down in geographic treatises and fragments? Where did the name 'Europe' originate from? Could it be from a person, either mortal or divine? In ancient Greek literature the name 'Europa' appears quite frequently for Greek goddesses and Greek women. Strangely enough, the best known Europa myth concerns a Phoenician princess, loved by the Greek god Zeus. Many mythographs doubt the Asian descent of the Phoenician Europa. Is her real origin to be located on mainland Greece? How can the contradicting Greek myths be interpreted, and was the name universally accepted as the name for the continent? In the second part of this book, the author tells the amazing story of how the Arts have treated the Europa myths for almost three millennia. He shows the extraordinary influence of the personification of the geographic continent Europe on literature, music, sculpture, painting, tapestry and other applied arts. All this clearly demonstrates the vivid interest in Europe for the subject throughout the ages and illustrates, according to Karel van Miert in his Foreword, our common European culture.
Author | : Robert Ferguson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752382147 |
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Reproduction of the original: The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Author | : Doubravka Olšáková |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785332538 |
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Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation”—which relied upon ideologically corrupted and pseudoscientific theories—had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.
Author | : John Everett-Heath |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781561593002 |
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Providing a fascinating window into history, place names reflect migrations of peoples, their religious and cultural traditions, topography, industrial development, and local languages, as well as conquests and fortifications long disappeared. Drawing on a wealth of experience at the British Foreign Office, John Everett-Heath has compiled a unique reference of the origins of place names for European cities, towns, and countries. This reference guide will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in history, economics, foreign policy, political science, current affairs, and social science.
Author | : Tony Judt |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2006-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143037750 |
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author | : Robert Ferguson (of Carlisle.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Rivers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Timothy Snyder |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465032974 |
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From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.
Author | : Robert Ferguson |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781497374669 |
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The first wave of Asian immigration that swept over Europe gave names to the great features of nature, such as the rivers, long before the wandering tribes that composed it settled down into fixed habitations, and gave names to their dwellings and their lands. The names thus given at the outset may be taken therefore to contain some of the most ancient forms of the Indo-European speech. And once given, they have in many, if not in most cases remained to the present day, for nothing affords such strong resistance to change as the name of a river. The smaller streams, variously called in England and Scotland brooks, becks, or burns, whose course extended but for a few miles, and whose shores were portioned out among but a few settlers, readily yielded up their ancient names at the bidding of their new masters. But the river that flowed past, coming they knew not whence, and going they knew not whither—upon whose shores might be hundreds of settlers as well as themselves, and all as much entitled to give it a name as they—was naturally, as a matter of common convenience, allowed to retain its original appellation.